Duke wanted to learn instead of teach. Usually, hierarchy is based on credentials meaning the one with most expertise is on top while those with the least are on the bottom - or at least that is how education functioned. Most students who go to an elite private university has gotten the best education or “a lifetime of determined and focused study...always taking the most difficult courses, earning perfect scores on test, and doing lots of extracurricular work” (51). Duke then adds “We wonder what these astonishing young overachievers would do if given the chance not to follow the rules but to make them.” By inverting the roles of students and teachers, students are able to creating something new with what they’ve learned. The learner teaches the teacher new ideas and creations from what they have been around. These new ideas allows for teachers to teach their students in a better way that is catered to their generation. As seen with Duke, they provided iPods to students that has witnessed both the technological and pre-technological
Duke wanted to learn instead of teach. Usually, hierarchy is based on credentials meaning the one with most expertise is on top while those with the least are on the bottom - or at least that is how education functioned. Most students who go to an elite private university has gotten the best education or “a lifetime of determined and focused study...always taking the most difficult courses, earning perfect scores on test, and doing lots of extracurricular work” (51). Duke then adds “We wonder what these astonishing young overachievers would do if given the chance not to follow the rules but to make them.” By inverting the roles of students and teachers, students are able to creating something new with what they’ve learned. The learner teaches the teacher new ideas and creations from what they have been around. These new ideas allows for teachers to teach their students in a better way that is catered to their generation. As seen with Duke, they provided iPods to students that has witnessed both the technological and pre-technological